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Writing for The Dissident Blog, James Byrne reviews the status of Burmese literature in the post-dictatorship era in Myanmar:

When I was in the country last year there were poems being read about the Arab Spring. There were others about the harsh treatment of Burmese farmers. There were satires about power cuts and short stories that had a beginning and middle, but no end. All of these would have been instantly banned just a few years previously.

He also observed the following challenge that needs to be addressed:

If you probe deeper and talk to many of the writers inside the country suspicion of the government and Western cultural organisations remains.